Film soundtracks in your music collection

[KGB]

I've been paying more attention and listening more carefully to film soundtracks and how music is used in film, be it original compositions or a sort of Greatest Hits thing like Tarantino made a trademark of. Be it via download or purchase, which soundtracks got you interested enough to get to listen to them by themselves?

Here's mine:

A Clockwork Orange (by Walter Carlos & others)
Werckmeister Harmonies (by Milhály Víg)
Waking Life (by the Tosca Tango Orchestra & others)
Day of Anger (by Riz Ortolani)
Time of the Gypsies (by Goran Bregović)
Underground (by Goran Bregović)
Life is a Miracle (by Emir Kusturica & the No Smoking Orchestra)
Amélie (by Yann Tiersen)
Elevator to the Gallows (by Miles Davis)
A Boy Named Charlie Brown (by the Vince Guaraldi Trio)
The Sting (by Marvin Hamlisch)
The Harder They Come (by Jimmy Cliff & others)
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (by Seu Jorge, Mark Mothersbaugh & others)
Pubis Angelical (by Charly García)
Pulp Fiction (by various)
Taxi Driver (by Bernard Herrmann)
Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels (by various)

Also I've been listening to a compilation of Nino Rota's better known pieces, good stuff.

[edkrak]

Some of my favorites:

"Holy Mountain" (I especially love "Tarot Will Teach You" track)
"Getting Down with Black Emanuelle" - compilation of Nico Fidenco's music from films with Laura Gemser
"The Goblin Collection 1975-1989" - it has their best tracks from "Suspiria", "Deep Red", "Tenebre", "Phenomena" and few others. BTW whole "Phenomena" soundtrack is amazing. Wyman's "Valley" is fantastic and metal songs also work quite well (and I hate metal most of the time but for horror films it just works).
"Poliziotteschi Graffiti" - compilation from various polizio films
"Demoni" - I love this soundtrack and that's a real shame that full version probably won't be ever released on CD because of copyrights. Fortunately I found original vinyl for a good price.
"Modern Girls" - one of my favorite 80s soundtracks - I've listened to it tens of times even though I've never seen the movie. Original CD is incomplete and missing best tracks (from Rogness Scott) so I had to find "alternative sources".
Bobby Beausoleil - "Lucifer Rising" - one of the greatest psychedelic albums of all time - I need to hunt it down one day.
"Class of Nuke'Em High" - film sucks, but music is surprisingly good. Solid 80s music.
"Cannibal Apocalypse" - cannibalism & jazz is a great mixture, but this music works alone too.
"Cut and Run" - very good soundtrack, unfortunately unreleased AFAIK, so I'm listening to music ripped straight from the film :/
"Cannibal Holocaust"
"Zombi Holocaust" - track "The Magic is in Progress" is the highlight here - sounds almost like early Detroit Techno even though the genre came to existence about 10 years later
"Hard Boiled"
"Hanzo the Razor"
"Satomi Hakken-Den" - good 80s cheese. I've never seen the film I think it's some samurai fantasy flick, but soundtrack sounds like taken straight from some teen sex comedy.
"Space is the Place"

If I thought long enough I could probably find a lot more especially from the golden age of Italian cinema. The amount of great music composed by Fidenco, Ortolani, Frizzi, Giombini and others in the 70s & 80s is simply astonishing.

[frederic_g54]

Good to know I'm not the only one who has filled up his mp3 player with film soundtracks. Here are some of mine:

Koyaanisqatsi (by Philip Glass, music makes the film)
Charlie Chaplin & Ennio Morricone compilations (lots of good stuff to be found here)
Donnie Darko (by Michael Andrews)
Taxi Driver (by Bernard Herrmann)
pretty much every Kubrick/Tarantino soundtrack
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (by Nick Cave & Warren Ellis)
Mulholland Dr. (by Angelo Badalamenti and various, good ol' Lynchian ambience)
Into the Wild (by Eddie Vedder)
Leaving Las Vegas (by Mike Figgis, jazzy edge that suits the Las Vegas backdrop wonderfully)
Lost In Translation (by Kevin Shields & various)
Snatch (by various)
Drive (by Cliff Martinez, some Brian Eno influence I'd say)

[KGB]

Forgot all about Goblin, Profondo Rosso is a great album, and truly the music pretty much makes that film. The Assasination of Jesse James I remember had a great soundtrack too, I'll be checking it out soon. And speaking of Lynch I remember listening a lot to the Lost Highway soundtrack a few years back, forgot all about it.

[TheDenizen]

Goblin are all kinds of awesome...but as a teenager I can only remember being infatuated with two movie soundtracks: The Crow and Brainscan (the awful Ed Furlong virtual reality flick). Both were packed with great songs from cool contemporary bands.

The only actual film score I own on CD is Basil Poledouris' epic work for Conan the Barbarian.

[ShogunRua]

Goblin are all kinds of awesome...but as a teenager I can only remember being infatuated with two movie soundtracks: The Crow and Brainscan (the awful Ed Furlong virtual reality flick). Both were packed with great songs from cool contemporary bands.

The only actual film score I own on CD is Basil Poledouris' epic work for Conan the Barbarian.

Definitely one of the best choices. Mine;

Conan the Barbarian
Highlander
Bloodsport
Once Upon a Time in the West
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Clockwork Orange
Black Caesar

and of course, the greatest soundtrack ever,

Krull

I like Goblin's work too, but not quite enough to listen on its own.

[CMonster]

If I have my mp3 player on me and something awesome happens to me I always turn on The Ecstasy of Gold.

[Bojangles]

Lots of great soundtracks out there, but these are the ones that I actually listen to regularly:

Magnolia - Aimee Mann (& Jon Brion)
The Straight story - Angelo Badalamenti
Into the Wild - Eddie Vedder
The Thin Red Line - Hans Zimmer
Rudy - Jerry Goldsmith
JFK - John Williams
I Heart Huckabees - Jon Brion
The Thin Blue Line - Philip Glass
Cloud Atlas - Tom Twyker/Johnny Klimek/Reinhold Heil
The Social Network - Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross

[Stewball]

Musicals:
Jesus Christ Superstar
Fiddler on the Roof
West Side Story
The Music Man
Evita
Phantom of the Opera
Moulin Rouge
Chicago
Mamma Mia
Little Shop of Horrors
My Fair Lady
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Across the Universe
Frozen (1 good song)



Other movies with excellent soundtracks:
[i]Streets of Fire
Crossroads (1986)
O Brother Where Art Thou
Gladiator
Black Snake Moan
Footloose
Pulp Fiction
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Blues Brothers
Gangs of New York
Leap of Faith
Rainman
School of Rock
Once Upon a Time in Mexico
The Graduate
A Clockwork Orange
Footloose X2
Bandits
Moonstruck
Black Swan
Pirate Radio
American Graffiti
Burlesque
Good Morning Vietnam
Cadillac Records (good tracks but movie a downer)
Ray
The Princess and the Frog
Tangled
Sucker Punch

[Luna6ix]

i have only one soundtrack and i'll probably get a bit of ridicule for it but it's the soundtrack to "disturbing behavior". i'll be damned if it isn't awesome, though.